Beyond the Life Cycle: Organizational and Technological Design. I. An Alternative Perspective
本文批判了生命周期模型在管理中的简单化应用，基于对4000项英国和加拿大创新的调查，提出了一个更贴近技术组织变革动态的替代框架。
The life cycle model has become part of the everyday vocabulary of management and is used as a rough simplification of rather complex phenomena. Chris DeBresson and Joseph Lampel have undertaken a thorough re‐examination of the underlying assumptions of the model and propose a reformulation that they believe gives a better approximation of the dynamics of technological and organizational change. The basis for their reformulation is a survey of 4000 British and Canadian innovations in many industries over some 30 years. In a companion article immediately following this one, the authors illustrate their reformulation by a detailed analysis of one firm in one industry.